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Hello! Welcome to my blog. My name is Marianne and I live in Melbourne with my husband and our very fluffy cat, Babycat. (Who, at 7 years old, is hardly a kitten anymore but she will always be our baby!) I grew up in London and moved to Melbourne aged 22 for adventure and for love, which turned out to be a great idea as we are now happily married. I love vintage, especially the 1930s to the 1950s, and can skip happily over some of the 1960s to enjoy lots of that beautiful and otherworldly 1970s stuff. Here I write about my life in Melbourne and the things that interest me: clothes (especially of the vintage kind), beauty, makeup, food, interiors, travel, books, films (old ones please), going out, staying home, cocktails in bars, dinners in restaurants, breakfasts in cafes, walking in parks, biking down backstreets, taking photographs in conspicuous places, drinking coffee in bed, my endless love of platform shoes, and sometimes cats, too.

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Monday, 13 June 2011

red hearts

sunglasses // sportsgirl

trench coat // vintage

cardigan // forever new

dress // lipstickvogue.com a couple of years ago

scarf // thrifted

I needed some sunglasses in a hurry today – I broke my usual pair a couple of days ago and needed a pair for a sunny bike ride. I didn't like any of the standard ones I saw at the shops this morning, so I went for the cutesy choice instead – red heart sunglasses! I actually really quite like them!

This is my favourite repro dress, and I don't think I've worn it on the blog before. I love the fit, and it's got little brown and yellow birds on it, and white piping... I love it. Of course I'd been sat in a car for a while before I took these pics, so the cotton is a bit wrinkly – one day, one fine day, I might just take outfit pics before I leave the house. We'll see. I do need to add some press studs to the placket to make it sit just right, but it's not an urgent job. I also need to get a little screw for my old pink sunglasses (the old one is somewhere on a northern Melbourne street) – much more important! x